Morgul Blade

About

Morgul Blade is a musical project inspired by the weapons and armour featured in J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth fantasy writings, including The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, and The Silmarillion. The project draws from Tolkien's approach to fictional warfare, which was modelled on the Ancient and Early Medieval periods of history. Tolkien's depiction of weapons and armour particularly reflects Northern European culture as seen in Beowulf and the Norse sagas, a relationship he established in The Fall of Gondolin, the first story in his legendarium to be written. In Tolkien's writings, such Medieval weapons and armour are used by his fictional races, including Elves, Dwarves, Men, Hobbits, and Orcs. Like his historical sources, Tolkien's characters often gave names to their weapons, sometimes with runic inscriptions to demonstrate that they are magical and possess their own history and power.